Author Archives: firebrandnotes

Fitness Blender and Injury Fix

If you love your exercise and would benefit from some low-cost and free resources to help you in this new season, here are a couple of paragraphs plugging two of the best resources that I have discovered in in the last 15 years working within exercise and health.

Bikinis, Lads’ Mags and Troll-Hunting

While all of this was unfolding, I was involved in a twitter debate regarding the campaign to ban ‘lad’s mag’s’ and to reform the modesty of them given their sexualised genre. As part of the discussion on Twitter (with an individual who was subsequently named and shamed on Sky TV as a Troll)…

When In Rome

I’m always interested in stuff that people are ridiculously excited and passionate about, even if I don’t (currently) share their affections . I kind of feel like I’m missing out somehow – except when it comes to mushrooms – they are heinous little things that grown in dark, damp places and really should just remain there.

Nearing Nephology

In that moment I had to slow down, concentrate, listen more carefully (for traffic on the road) and have much more respect for my surroundings that had now over-shadowed me. The normal bias of my senses had chnaged – I was now relying not so much on what I could see, but what I could hear

Dark Are We Yet Lovely #2

The post yesterday tried to shine a spot-light on the nature of God as an affectionate Lover of His people and the difference between this reality and the notion that God loves us only because He loves us unconditionally, as though we weren’t lovable to Him. Of course, our standing before Him is both transactionalContinue reading “Dark Are We Yet Lovely #2”